Eurystheus, having seen the apples, gave them back, and Heracles presented them to Athene. […] Odysseus was obliged to drag them away and fasten them to the benches of the ship. […] As the sheep passed out the giant felt carefully among them for his victims, but not finding them on the backs of the animals he let them pass, and thus they escaped. […] She promised to dismiss them all in safety after hospitably entertaining them. […] Among them he recognized his mother.